Love consents to all and commands only those who consent. Love is abdication. God is abdication.

Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.

Pain and suffering are a kind of currency passed from hand to hand until they reach someone who receives them but does not pass them on.

There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.

If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money.

A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.

There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.

The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running.

Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.

More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic.

You have to have more than hope to get what you want in life.

The shortest road man walks, is sadly the road of gratitude!

I do believe that God is with us even when we're at our craziest and that this goodness guides, provides, and protects.

To be a teacher you have to have a very giving, selfless personality. I don't think I'm that selfless and giving.

Stealing has always been a way of redistributing wealth.

I've never made a secret of the fact that I'd have loved to have children.

Happiness is meant to be shared.

I'm normal size... I wish we could all be known as models rather than plus size.

I do not like [in the new Federal Constitution] the omission of a Bill of Rights providing clearly and without the aid of sophisms for... protection against standing armies